Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Jessica Brown Findlay

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• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Knows
  • Taste
  • Western

• What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christmas
  • Christ
  • Necessary

• I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Eyes
  • Singing
  • Eye

• I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Up
  • Book
  • Picture

• God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Roots

• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Life
  • Audience
  • My Life

• It's always helpful to put things down on paper. That's why I started writing.

  

  Brett Young
  • Writing
  • Why

• I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Jesus
  • Nazareth

• Unfortunately, the relations between the United Kingdom and Russia have not developed in the best possible way; however, it has never been our fault. It was not we who decided to discontinue relations with the United Kingdom; it was the UK who preferred to "freeze" our bilateral contacts in various fields.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Relation
  • Faults
  • Contact

• What is the one emotion that you would like to feel for the rest of your life?

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• Bernard's Leach drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Drawing
  • Pot
  • Accents

• I refused then like I do now to let anybody tie me down

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Refused

• William Eggleston sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • World
  • Strange
  • Accepted

• God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Reflecting

• It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.

  

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Inspiring
  • Asking
  • Convincing

• If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Angry

• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  

  Euripides
  • Company
  • Righteous
  • Estate

• I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Rap
  • Devil
  • Hip Hop

• God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Sinner
  • Righteous

• There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • War
  • Sacrifice
  • Crime

• The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Life
  • Term
  • Embrace

• I don't know if I'm so righteous.

  

  Jessica Brown Findlay
  • Righteous